Comments on: Self-Healing Solar Cells — Vascular Channels Based On Plant Leaves Allow For Self-Healing In New Solar Cells http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/15/self-healing-solar-cells-vascular-channels-based-on-plant-leaves-allow-for-self-healing-in-new-solar-cells/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 19:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: JamesWimberley http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/15/self-healing-solar-cells-vascular-channels-based-on-plant-leaves-allow-for-self-healing-in-new-solar-cells/#comment-176801 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:29:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55064#comment-176801 Last night the BBC aired a programme with a segment on Joseph Paxton, the self-taught Victorian genius who designed the huge Crystal Palace for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, entirely out of cast iron modules and sheet glass. His engineering was inspired by the branching vascular pattern on the underside of the large floating leaf of the Amazon Lily. The greenhouse Paxton built earlier to house it at Kew is still standing.

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